IBPS PO Cut Off 2017: Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has officially announced the dates for this year’s Probationary Officer/ Management Trainee (PO/ MT) exam. According to the official notification released by IBPS, about 3247 vacancies are found open for PO posts in about 20 banks at present. Individuals who had waited for this moment might be very excited on hearing this news. Qualifying in this IBPS PO exam is not that much easy. Only proper preparation gives success to aspirants. Also candidates should be aware of the cut-off criteria. Yes, every year IBPS will fix minimum qualifying cut-offs for PO Common Written Exam. State-wise vacancies in participating banks, difficulty level of exam, etc. are some of the factors which IBPS will consider to fix cut-offs. Do you guys want to know about previous as well as expected IBPS PO Cut Off 2017? No problem. By reading the below information you will get it.

IBPS PO Cut Off 2017:

Recently the notification for IBPS PO exam has been released and now in various centres across India, the exam arrangements are going ahead. Exam will be conducted in Computer based mode and questions will be of objective type. Questions for exam will display both in English and Hindi, except language section. Candidates who are possessing valid admit cards issued by IBPS shall only be allowed to write this PO exam.

But aspirants should remember, the PO exam has two phases i.e. Prelims and Mains. Contestants securing high marks in prelims exam shall only be shortlisted and invited for the main exam. For both the exams IBPS will fix two categories of cut-offs, as given below.

Sectional cut-off

Overall cut-off

Sectional cut-offs will be usually fixed for each prelims/ main exam topic individually and overall cut-offs will be fixed for the entire prelims/main exam.

First aspirants should qualify in sectional cut-offs. Candidates failing to meet any one of the sectional cut-offs fixed by IBPS will be declared as disqualified in exam. Then IBPS will give importance to the overall cut-off. Individuals who are securing marks above the overall cut-off shall only be further invited for the main exam/ interview round of selection.

So what we are trying to say is: concentrate and study all the exam topics equally, from which questions will be drafted for PO exam (prelims/ mains).

IBPS PO Prelims Cut Off 2017

Expected Section-wise Cut-offs: About 100 questions will be asked for IBPS PO Prelims exam. But aspirants will not get too much time as expected. Only 1 hour i.e. 60 minutes is the exam duration. Within this time span, try to attend as much questions as possible.

By analyzing previous year cut-offs fixed by IBPS, we have just assumed and given the expected cut-off of PO Prelims Exam 2017 in below table, for each section. Just go through it.

IBPS PO Prelims – Category-wise cut-offs

Sections

Prelims Exam marks

SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWDs

General

Previous year (2016)

Expected (2017)

Previous year (2016)

Expected (2017)

English Language

30 marks

4.50

5.50

7.00

8.00

Reasoning Ability

35 marks

5.50

6.50

8.50

9.50

Quantitative Aptitude

35 marks

5.25

6.00

8.25

9.00

Expected Overall Cut-offs: For each category IBPS will fix a separate overall cut-off. The minimum qualifying overall cut-off for PO prelims exam will be fixed by IBPS in the following format.

IBPS PO Mains Cut Off 2017:

Expected Section-wise Cut-offs: IBPS PO Main examination will be conducted for 140 minutes. Total number of questions that will be asked for main exam is 200. Following table gives you idea about the cut-offs.

IBPS PO Mains – Category-wise cut offs

Sections

IBPS PO Main Exam Marks

SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWDs

General

Previous year (2016)

Expected (2017)

Previous year (2016)

Expected (2017)

English Language

50 marks

2.25

3.50

4.75

6.00

Reasoning Ability

40 marks

3.25

4.75

5.25

6.75

Quantitative Aptitude

50 marks

10.75

12.00

12.50

13.75

Computer Knowledge

40 marks

5.00

6.50

6.50

8.00

General Awareness

20 marks

8.00

9.75

10.75

12.50

Expected Overall Cut-offs: Based on category, overall cut-offs will be fixed by IBPS. Usually overall cut-offs will be fixed for PO Main exam by combining the marks taken by candidates in each section.

IBPS PO Interview Cut off 2017

After IBPS PO prelims and mains exam, aspirants who performed well in main exam would be invited for a Personal Interview by issuing call letters. Maximum mark for which IBPS PO interview will be conducted is 100. The participating banks will only interview candidates. Depending upon performance of contestants, the interviewers will put marks for candidates. Those who are falling within following cut-offs shall only be deemed qualified in interview.

Minimum Interview cut-off (out of 100 marks)

Category

Cut Off(%)

SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWDs

35%

Other categories

40%

IBPS PO Cut Off 2017 for Provisional Allotments

The main exam and interview marks of candidates will be taken into account for preparation of provisional allotment list. The percentage/ cut-offs will be calculated in the following ratio.

Refer the following table, to know about the minimum & maximum cut-offs that are considered for provisional allotment in 2016 and expected cut-offs of 2017.

Category

Previous cut-off 2016

Expected cut-off 2017

General

39.90 to 57.40

44.90 – 61.75

OBC

37.00 to 50.20

41.25 – 55.40

SC

33.70 to 46.30

37.50 – 50.30

ST

28.60 to 45.10

32.00 – 49.10

HI

25.40 to 40.50

28.40 – 44.60

OC

31.40 to 52.70

36.50 – 57.25

VI

33.10 to 55.20

36.00 – 58.20

IBPS PO Reserve List Cut Off 2017

IBPS also releases a reserve list cut-off at last. It’s like a waiting list. If any vacancies arises for PO/ MT posts in between April 2018 to March 2019, then candidates who are falling under the reserve list cut-off prepared by IBPS will be considered for the provisional allotment. The IBPS PO Reserve List 2017 will be kept valid only up to 31st March 2019.

But within this period, if no vacancies arise in participating banks for PO/ MT posts, then aspirants coming under reserve list cut-off will not be considered for provisional allotment.